STEELE, Charles Gibson
| Service Numbers: | 424114, N256149 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 October 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Annandale, New South Wales, Australia, 15 June 1923 |
| Home Town: | Woolloomooloo, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Flying Battle, Yugoslavia, 17 October 1944, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Belgrade War Cemetery, Serbia Collective grave 6 / E 1 - 4, Belgrade War Cemetery, Belgrade, Serbia |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 424114 | |
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| 28 Oct 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N256149 | |
| 12 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 424114 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
148SQN RAF Halifax JD319 was on a mission to drop ammunition supplies to Yugoslavia Partisans when it crashed into trees on a mountain near Solcava and four of the crew were killed (17/10/1944): Flight Sergeant Charles Gibson Steele 424114 RAAF / Flight Sergeant Edwards 1601873 RAF / Sergeant Daker 1581777 RAF / Sergeant Clarke 1824674 RAF
Flight Sergeant Lewis Walter Calder 427416 RAAF survived the crash along with Sergeant Parker 1899056 RAF and Sergeant Bromage 1880610 RAF (as this member was uninjured he was evacuated from the area and taken back to Allied lines in Italy)
Calder and Parker were injured and being cared for at a Partisan hospital facility in the vicinity of Ljubno, Yugoslavia which was attacked by German forces (12/03/1945) with FSGT Calder being killed (buried in Trbovlje Civil Cemetery, Slovenia) and SGT Parker taken POW (not on the CWGC - must have survived the war)